in reply to searching for strings

What are the tools to use ?
substr, ord, chr (or pack and unpack), hashes (see perldata), pre/post in/de-crement (for strings, only increment works), integer/string comparison (== and eq) (see perlop).

--shmem

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}